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Source: USA.gov - Recipes from Famous Americans
4 1/2 cups sugar pinch of salt
2 tablespoons butter
1 tall can evaporated milk
12 ounces semi-sweet chocolate bits
12 ounces German-sweet chocolate
1 pint marshmallow cream
2 cups nutmeats
Boil the sugar, salt, butter, evaporated milk together for six minutes.
Put chocolate bits and German chocolate, marshmallow cream and nutmeats in a bowl. Pour the boiling syrup over the ingredients. Beat until chocolate is all melted, then pour in pan. Let stand a few hours before cutting.
Remember it is better the second day. Store in tin box.
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SMOS versatility offers sea ice mapping
ESA's SMOS mission is proving to be extremely versatile. Not only does this pioneering satellite offer crucial data on soil moisture and ocean salinity, but it can also map the thickness of ice floating in the polar seas.
The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite carries an innovative passive microwave radiometer to capture images of 'brightness temperature'. These images correspond to microwave radiation emitted from Earth's surface and can be related to soil moisture and ocean salinity.
This information is essential for improving our understanding of the exchange processes between the atmosphere, land and oceans – Earth's water cycle.
Although not a primary objective, it was suggested that the radiometer, which uses a wavelength of 21 cm (L-band), would also be able to detect sea ice, which is another important component of the water cycle.
In fact, an experiment campaign in 2007 over the Baltic Sea using an airborne version of the SMOS instrument confirmed that the mission had the potential to measure thin sea ice.
A group of scientists led by Prof. Kaleschke from the University of Hamburg's Institute of Oceanography has now developed and refined a method to make this a reality – showing, indeed, that SMOS data can be used to map sea ice routinely.
Moreover, the team has gone one step further so that the thickness of the sea ice can also be inferred. The information from SMOS is most reliable for ice that is thinner than 1 m.
As an example, the animation above shows how the sea ice in the Laptev Sea, which lies off northern Russia in the Arctic Ocean, advanced and thickened between 10 November and 10 December this year.
Prof. Kaleschke said, "Sea ice that is less than 50 cm thick is particularly important for weather and climate as it controls the exchange of heat between the ocean and atmosphere.
"This new information from SMOS will be very useful in monitoring ice as it grows in the winter and recedes in the spring.
"It will be used to investigate the exchange processes to improve our understanding of warming in the Arctic region."
The information on sea-ice thickness is complementing that delivered by ESA's CryoSat. Carrying a radar altimeter, CryoSat uses a different method of measuring sea ice – the height of the ice protruding above the water.
SMOS can offer daily coverage over the polar seas, while CryoSat provides higher spatial-resolution data and orbits very close to poles, thereby giving extra coverage.
The versatility of the SMOS mission appears to know no bounds. The mission has also demonstrated recently that it can offer new insight into the carbon and methane cycles by mapping soil as it freezes and thaws.
Susanne Mecklenburg, ESA's SMOS Mission Manager, said, "We have the potential of realising some very exciting new products from SMOS.
"Thanks to the work of all the scientists, we are taking the mission to a new level and making a substantial contribution to Earth science and operational monitoring."
Financed by ESA's Support to Science Element programme, the methods for detecting and mapping sea ice will continue to be refined and applied to other parts of the polar oceans.
It is envisaged that these products will be released for applications such as numerical weather prediction, ship routing and operational oceanography.


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Just One Eye has announced a new project with renowned artist Damien Hirst and 2012 CFDA award winners The Row - the first in a series of curated artistic partnerships. The project features nine different backpacks in a multitude of styles.
"We are longtime admirers of both Damien and The Row's work," explains Just One Eye co-founder Paola Russo, "and our main focus here is to nurture work between artists working in different mediums. We couldn't have dreamed of a better way to debut this series of partnerships."
For more information and to purchase any of the collection please visit Just One Eye.


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A very reliable sign that a newer model is coming is the appeareance of 'bling' versions of the existing model.
...I'm almost certain I'm going to pull the plug and get the Monochrom. But, if a new version is months away I'd perhaps wait.
I have never understood why some people prefer "fixed" B&W images from the camera, when so much B&W adjustment range and tweaking possibilities are available when shooting in RAW color. All possible color filter effects can be done in post with conversion software and plugins like Silver Efex. Pure B&W sensor does have certain advantages, but for me they are minimal compared to the convenience and limitless post processing possibilities offered by a RAW color file.
In fact the D800 is very close to the MM.
It would be interesting to see a comparison between D800(e) and MM, both with "straight" B&W conversions from Nikon and tweaked "artistic" conversions from the same, against the Leica MM output. Resolution AND the "interpretation" compared.
To be frank, when I'm shooting black and white I'll use an M6 before an MM/M240/M9/M8, an F4 before a D800, and a 501cm before using a digital back.
Yep. After a break of nearly a decade I've started developing b&w film again. 35mm and 120. I'd forgotten how much I enjoy it!-Dave-
I used to think this as well, but after using one for a week and processing the files, I can say that the MM looks more like silver than anything I can get out of my M9, the M240 I tried, my old and sold Phase One P30+, the 5d2, or the D800e. Seriously, the blacks and grays are chalky and have a nice texture to them. The only think I don't like is how the highlights blow, they are abrupt and empty.That being said, I didn't buy one. I almost did, but in reality if I want to seriously shoot black and white the M9 and D800 are really good. In fact the D800 is very close to the MM. If I bought an MM I'd have to sell my m9s and D800, and STILL cough up a grand or two.
I'm definitely not as technically literate as some, but it seems to me the only difference is that you take a black and white sensor, add a bayer matrix (or equivalent) and some software to bundle the RGB outcomes and you have a 'normal' digital camera. You take a black and white sensor, skip the bayer matrix and you have a monochrome camera, so it never seemed like a big deal to me.Mike.
B&W sensor translates the colors of light into shades of gray in a certain way. If the photographer wants some other translation/interpretation he has to use colored filters in front of the lens when taking the picture (to darken the blue sky with yellow filter, for example). When converting a digital color image into B&W, there are endless possibilities of adjusting the color to grayscale mapping for each color = unlimited number of adjustable color filters which can be used and experimented with after taking the photograph. That is the advantage of using color RAW file to make the final B&W picture.


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Hit The Road is an interactive journey planner for Dublin, Ireland. It shows maps and timetables of Dublin bus routes, such as the 46a, the 16, the 7 and the 75, along with the Luas (both Red and Green) and the Dart
Where are you, and where do you want to go?
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Contact us at email@example.com or follow us on twitter at @hittheroad_ie.
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Hit the Road shows you how to get between any two points in Dublin City, using a smart combination of Dublin Bus, Luas and DART routes.


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Brave Teacher Quits on Youtube…and Nobody Salutes Him
Nobody Wins
God bless this man…He says exactly what I have been thinking for years.
I have witnessed in my lifetime, the horror of what passes as our school system. When my son was in school…time and time again, I was always up at his school, complaining about one thing or another. I truly believe that schools hold some of the stupidest people, who were being paid big salaries, to sit on their asses all day long and collect taxpayers money.
Too many of our schools have become prisons. Mere education camps for teaching kids to not think, behave, and be bored. Teachers are always complaining about the kids, but kids need to run, to jump, to laugh…we knock all that out of their system, and it's why we have a nation of stupid people.
I remember going back to my old high school when I was in my twenties. I walked the halls with my friend during classes, and we were both stunned— literally stunned. There was not a word coming out of any child. And this high school held THOUSANDS of kids. Not a sound. The teachers voices droned on in somberly monotone. Those poor kids, I thought to myself I turned to my friend, who had been in the same grade as I, and our mouths dropped with shock…we started laughing it was almost too painful to witness.
When we went to school, everyone was talking, laughing, having fun. When the teacher talked you shut up, but there was always time to smile, to laugh…to see these kids in complete depression was a big awakening for me. As we passed and looked into every classroom, every head was down. All eyes were down. As if they were all frightened. My old high school..had become a prison.
As you can see, this man is furious. And I spent a good portion of my own life being furious at the schools that my son attended, which I myself had attended. I have never met so many stupid, and arrogant people in one place in my life, and our country's schools are FILLED with idiots. The ones who could help the children, like this teacher said, are not allowed to. That's not saying that here and there we don't still have good schools, it s just that IF you live in a democratic district, your schools are almost federal prisons. And they are all starting to look like prisons. The newer ones have no windows at all.
And…while now they will fortress the school against criminals, the PARENTS are also kept out. This was happening when I was trying to visit my son. You would go to the office, and they would always say…even AFTER school was over. "If we let you into the school. ALL the parents will want to come in." Nope. You could not monitor the class even though YOU paid their salaries. The system is so messed up. As a parent, you have to be careful, because the teachers let you know, THEY hold your child's future in their hands. Too many of them will remind you of that if you even complain.
One can only surmise, that our government WANTS a stupid people. A smart and educated populace would never put up with them.
Kids learn better when they are having fun. Don't listen to me, listen to the man whose inventions give you EVERYTHING you use everyday; Thomas Edison. Here's some things he had to say about teaching children.
"I like the Montessori method. It teaches through play. It makes learning a pleasure. It follows the natural instincts of the human being. The trouble with our way of education as generally followed is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It cast the brain into a mould. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning and it lays more stress on memory than on observation. It breeds fear and from fear comes ignorance."
Nothing is going to doom this nation more than raising generations of stupid kids. And that's what we've done, and will continue to do. It's one of the reasons we have Obama. He puts on his jet set cool leather jacket, and smiles, and half the people believe anything he says, because they went through the American school system.
The only place it seems we are excelling is computer technology, where Apple, Facebook, and all the others are execelling…ever ask yourself WHY?
Because they have FUN! They have gyms, and playgrounds, and swimming pools when you go to work there…, and then they work hard.
If we did this in our schools, no country in the world could match our kids. No country in the world runs their schools with the aim to take a mind and set it up for learning for life. This man to me, is a hero.
If only ALL the teachers were as smart as him.
Nobody Wins when we run our schools like concentration camps.
The problem with Newtown is a cultural one…not a gun problem. This kid, was raised in the finest schools, and probably felt like an outcast all through the school years. Mix in divorce with that, and you have a time bomb. They said he was extremely intelligent.
Well, it's the intelligent ones who are destroyed in our schools. I don't know how many really brillant kids I have seen been ostracized in school, simply because they were smart, and had energy. Instead of nurturing our own natural intelligent resources, we are destroying them.
It's up to the parents to make sure your kids survive.
(Sorry about the rant…it's just that I have SO many bad memories of the absolute horrors of our educational system.)
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I went to a 'good school' back in the 50's. A Grammar school, no less, and run by Priests. And it was a very good school indeed.
Unfortunately I was not a very good pupil. I played truant as often as I could get away with it, which by the time I reached 16 was most of the time. I was not a disruptive child, nor did i object too much to the discipline (we had a poor old, lanky, gaunt Deputy Head, a Priest, whose main function was to strap boys, which he did for a good 30 minutes in every 50.). No, it was the lessons mainly. Boring, tugid, not so much 'directed' by a State curriculum as just not my cup of tes. I left school asap, which was 16 and a half.
It was another 9 years before I started my education. I enrolled in the Open Unversity whilst I was holding down a 70 hour a week job as a military officer. I could have worked my way slowly through a degree, taking half a credit per year, but instead I did 2 credits each year. That is to say, a 'full-time' student's load. I just loved it. I recall half-way through that first year sitting almost in tears on evening thinking, "THIS is just Brilliant. WHY didn't they teach me this at school". The lights were going on in my head like in a fairground. In seven years I completed 2 degrees, one at honours. (OK, I got a 2.1 – upper second honours, but heck, I was still doing a 70 hour working week)
My school failed to reach me. It failed to get me to LOVE learning. But I found the way myself.
I have little positive regard for schooling. Even less since the socialist-feminist wreckers got their dirty hands on it. I look back on my teachers and can see that they were not without fault, but not that bad either. They did not have much to work with. Resources were scant in the UK in the 50's and even more scant for us catholics. And some of us kids really did need a firm hand.
In the video the teacher you call brave does show some courage. He states his position. But with him gone, what chance do his kiddies have now? He is running away. I know, I know. Who am I to criticise when I ran away from school as often as I did. But I was a kid.
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Pole Banners
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For these Guidelines, a pole banner is defined as a banner suspended over public streets (which includes the sidewalk and roadway) and attached to a single street light pole. Overhead banners and banners hung on private property are not a part of these guidelines. Overhead banners are banners that span the roadway and are usually suspended from poles on either side of the street. Banners placed on private property are governed by the Zoning code.
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M M & P Millard Sheets, Milford Zornes, Phil Dike (Exhibit on Display)
March 28, 2019 @ 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
An event every week that begins at 12:00pm on Sunday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, repeating until April 28, 2019
Selections from CCMA's Collections
Artists Milford Zornes, Millard Sheets and Phil Dike were instrumental in developing the mid-century California Style painting. Millard Sheets helped Helen and Francis Line establish CCMA and participated in the First Invitational Purchase Prize Art Exhibit in 1941. From that exhibit, he donated his painting Mesa Twilight to the permanent collection. All three artists participated in the Second Invitational Purchase Prize Art Exhibit in 1942. Phil Dike exhibited in the 1943 exhibit and was joined by Millard Sheets for the 1944, 1945 and 1946 shows, exploring different media. In this exhibit, we honor their contributions to the artistic community and to the developing Chaffey Community Museum of Art.
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Lamb butchery, special "melon style" shoulder edition.
Prequel to the savory anniversary spread and deliciously nostalgic slideshow: the shoulder from a Pennsylvania raised (Halal slaughtered) lamb prepared in the French "melon style". The melon nickname is earned through the trussing that suggests the fruit's segmented cleavage, though the farm stand shape is more easily recognized as a pumpkin; denser Stateside dipshit cousin within the melon's extended Cucurbitaceae family and reminiscent of dim witted, greedy rank & file GOP gourd-shaped heads.
The shoulder was received square cut, having its fore shank removed above the elbow. The scapula and its surrounding cuts (teres major, flatiron) were separated from the ribcage, the scapula bone removed and the remaining meat (beef equivalent of the chuck roll) formed into a ball with excess (generally the deboned shank) tucked under and into the center of the ball, à la Buffalo Bill. Scraps were ground with orange zest, garlic and rosemary for breakfast lamb sausage.
The resulting roast was dressed in a girdle made from thin strips of lard, in this case a slab of fatback that had been whittled to length with alternating butterfly cuts so as to yield a long ribbon. A decorative topside braid kept the product moist and assured –at first glance- that it had been well cared for.
The "melon" rested on a coarsely cut aromatic bedding of mirepoix, herbs, sliced lemon and was gently roasted in a 300ºF oven with frequent basting sessions until cooked to a happy medium, then left to rest at ambient room temperature for the better part of an hour. Cut free from its fatty corset, the roast was divvied up much like a meaty tomato and enjoyed with fine condiments, friendly camaraderie and frosty suds. One of the finer roasts of the spring.


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Tag the stuff you love with the foundmi smart tracker! This fun, collectible Bluetooth tracker featuring your favorite character can be used to tag and instantly find your keys, tablet, wallet or whatever else you decide to attach it to. Use the foundmi app on your phone to reverse track and locate your foundmi tracker at all times. Plus... we've added the foundmi camera shutter button to create that perfect selfie.
Find your phone: Double-click the button on your foundmi to cause your phone to ring, even on silent.
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Selfie Mode: In "selfie mode" you can double-click the button on your foundmi to snap a photo using the in-app viewfinder.
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- Bluetooth low energy technology
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IOS - What Apple devices will foundmi work with?
- iPhone 5S or newer
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Apple device requirements:
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- Samsung Galaxy (S5 or newer)
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*If your Android device is not on this list, that means we have not officially tested with your device type. There is a good chance Foundmi is compatible, but we cannot guarantee connectivity.


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24 Jul 2015 : Functy and Knot3D back online #
About a week ago SourceForge suffered what seemed to be a catastrophic outage, taking everything offline. I realised when some of the tools I use for continuous integration and syndication started to complain at me. I'm pleased to see things are getting back to normal. Both Functy and Knot3D are hosted on SourceForge and both are now back online. SourceForge is an important site from an Open Source perspective and I feel for the SourceForge team who clearly have had to do a lot of work to piece everything back together.


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Like many nations, Cameroon has a teen pregnancy problem that isn't being adequately addressed. The solution many have turned to is utterly horrifying: In an attempt to make their daughters less desirable to boys, mothers are ironing their breasts with hot objects to prevent them from developing.
In a report on the practice that affects one in four girls in Cameroon, CNN interviews Grace Techu, a mother who began ironing her daughter's breasts before school every day when she was nine. Techu used a hot pestle heated in the fire, but others use hot stones or coconut shells to beat at girls' breasts. This is supposed to discourage the growth of breast tissue, but all it does is severly injure girls. According to a State Department human rights report, breast ironing often leaves girls with, "burns, deformities, and psychological problems."
Techu clearly sees breast ironing as a loving act. Mothers do this because they want their girls to be able to stay in school longer, rather than dropping out due to unplanned pregnancy. Girls who start developing at a young age are particularly at risk, and doctors say girls in Cameroon are starting puberty earlier thanks to improved diets.
Thankfully, several charities have launched campaigns in recent years to provide sex education and teach people that breast ironing doesn't prevent pregnancy. In addition to tackling traditional practices, activists have to fight the idea (which goes far beyond Cameroon) that efforts to control sexuality should be taken out on women's bodies.


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Byrd: Obama in power grab
By JOHN BRESNAHAN
Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), the longest-serving Democratic senator, is criticizing President Obama's appointment of White House "czars" to oversee federal policy, saying these executive positions amount to a power grab by the executive branch.
In a letter to Obama on Wednesday, Byrd complained about Obama's decision to create White House offices on health reform, urban affairs policy, and energy and climate change. Byrd said such positions "can threaten the Constitutional system of checks and balances. At the worst, White House staff have taken direction and control of programmatic areas that are the statutory responsibility of Senate-confirmed officials."
While it's rare for Byrd to criticize a president in his own party, Byrd is a stern constitutional scholar who has always stood up for the legislative branch in its role in checking the power of the White House. Byrd no longer holds the powerful Appropriations chairmanship, so his criticism does not carry as much weight these days. Byrd repeatedly clashed with the Bush administration over executive power, and it appears that he's not limiting his criticism to Republican administrations ....
Well, good for Byrd! Nice to see some resistance somewhere in the Senate.
So much for "change." Obama is merely continuing the nearly unbroken pattern of presidents gathering more power to the Executive branch under one guise or another that has been going on for many decades, regardless of which party controls the White House.
Obama faces a decision as early as next week on whether to support a claim of executive privilege made by former President Bush in refusing to allow Karl Rove, the former deputy White House chief of staff, to be deposed by the House Judiciary Committee on the White House's role in the 2006 firing of nine U.S. attorneys.Read the whole thing here:
Bush claimed "absolute immunity" for top advisers in resisting such subpoenas, but Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), chairman of the Judiciary Committee, filed a lawsuit over the issue. The case is on appeal, and the Obama administration is scheduled to file a motion next week laying out its stance on the issue.
And watch this video:
How much do you want to bet that Obama criticizes Bush's particular use of that claimed executive immunity, but supports that power as being valid, necessary, and "constitutional" for a president to be able to carry out his duties?
Of course, we know Obama's application of all that power will be "special" and "for the children" and to "help people." And thus, most Democrats will be as cozy, warm, and fuzzy about it as Republicans were when it was their man wiping his ass with the Constitution. Just a bunch of nice sleeping frogs in the ever-heating pot. Byrd is a rare exception - a man who will challenge and criticize his own party's president.
Notice how Obama is not satisfied with the fact that his party now controls Congress - he doesn't want to even have to bother with Congress. He wants his internal White House staff to rule everything by decree, under his direct supervision. His exaulted Great Vision for Our Lives will flow straight from the mind of "the One," right into the hands of Rahm Emanuel (known as "the enforcer"), pure, undiluted, and unsullied by the foul hands of mere congress-critters, to be immediately implemented by absolutely obedient staff members who consider their only loyalty to be to Obama. "Stroke of a pen, law of the land, kinda cool!" has returned.
Sound familiar? It should, because the Bush Administration was the same, of course. Even when the Republicans controlled both houses of Congress, the Bush Administration consistently asserted that the President has an independent "unitary executive" power and does not need Congress for much of anything, except perhaps appropriations (and that is now no longer really even respected).
The claims of independent executive power by the Bush Administration were absurd - amounting to nothing less than the claim that the President, once elected, under his constitutional Article II powers, is absolutely unrestrained and unhindered by any other branch of government, any provision in the main body of the Constitution or the Bill of Rights. Basically, the argument was that the President is an elected dictator. Remember what James Madison warned:
Just for the record, I warned about this back in 2006. See my article Government Supremacists: Neocons, the National Security New Dealers. But of course, few Republicans listened because it was their guy doing it.
Well, now the totalitarian boot is on the other foot - the left foot.
The goal of executive supremacists in both parties is to make Congress an irrelevant debating society, such that it really doesn't matter which party holds a majority in Congress.
And that is yet another reason why the threat of a repeat of 1994 has no teeth as a check on what Obama does - even if Republicans retake Congress (and presuming the GOP quislings don't just go along) Obama will simply ignore them and do what he wants by executive order and decree through these special White House offices and through all of the other mechanisms of vastly expanded Executive Power he inherited from Bush.
We are now in the age of elected dictatorship, with the only election that really matters being for the presidency - and once elected, any President can do pretty much as he pleases.
The one great difference is that Obama will very likely turn the "war on terror" inward on gun owners and a resurgent militia movement. And that may be the spark that sets off the powder keg that is America.
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Behind Duda, Pascucci – Bisons blast Knights
Lucas Duda exploded with two homeruns and four RBI Wednesday night at Knights Stadium as the Bisons dropped the Knights, 10-3.
Duda got started in the second inning. With two men on and facing a 2-2 count, Duda got a called ball three on a check swing. He hit the payoff pitch over the right-field wall for his first homerun of the game and three of his four RBI.
Duda's second homerun of the game was a solo-shot in the fourth inning over the right field wall making the score, 5-1. Duda's blasts gave him seven on the season, tops on the Bisons team. Both homeruns came off of Knights starter Freddy Dolsi.
Valentino Pascucci stayed hot driving in one run in the first inning and going three-for-three with one walk. Pascucci was thrown out at the plate twice, once in the fourth and a second time in the seventh.
Michael Fisher reached first after being hit by a pitch and worked his way to third on a double by Lucas Duda. Pascucci followed Duda with a one-out-single to score Fisher from third and give the Bisons the early, 1-0, lead.
The Bisons added their sixth run in the seventh when Mike Nickeas drove in Jason Botts with a sacrifice fly.
After loading the bases with Bisons in the ninth Botts drilled a line-drive two-run double scoring Duda and Fernando Martinez to make it, 8-3. Pascucci moved to third on Bott's double and then scored on a wild pitch while Bott's moved to third with just one out.
Bott's scored the tenth run of the game on a sacrifice fly from Luis Hernandez.
Bisons starter Dylan Owen pitched five innings giving up six hits and one earned run in the second inning when Jordan Danks drilled a homerun for the Knights first run of the game. Owen recorded seven strikeouts, a season high for his 2011 season.
Owens last appearance came on May 23 against the Knights in Buffalo. He went three innings while giving up two runs in a no decision. He got the win in Wednesday night's game.
Game Notes: Lucas Duda took the team lead in homeruns after belting two in Wednesdays game, It was also Duda's first game with four RBI in one game…Starter Dylan Owen notched a season high seven strikeouts in five innings…The Bisons moved to, 4-3, when playing the Knights this season.


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IRS warns against scamming them and of scammers targeting you
Tax fraud through identity theft tops this year's "Dirty Dozen" list of scams, newly appointed IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said on a visit to Houston.
Confirmed by the U.S. Senate in December, Koskinen has been on a tour of major U.S. cities to meet taxpayers and IRS employees.
In a meeting with reporters March 5 at IRS offices in the Mickey Leland Federal Building, 1919 Smith, Koskinen said the agency is devoting more of its limited resources to fighting fraudsters and is "making great progress."
But it's a continual battle.
"They get a little more artful each year, to some extent," he said of scammers. "It's like the Whack-a-mole game. Each year there are different approaches."
Koskinen, 74, manages about 90,000 IRS employees and an annual budget of $11 billion. He holds a law degree from Yale University and has served in a variety of jobs, including nonexecutive chairman of Freddie Mac from 2008 to 2012.
Here is the IRS Dirty Dozen list of tax scams for 2014:
Identity theft
Identity theft occurs when someone uses your personal information, such as your Social Security number, to commit fraud. In many cases, a thief uses a legitimate taxpayer's identity to file a fake tax return and claim the refund.
The IRS website has a special section dedicated to identity theft. Taxpayers who believe they are at risk of identity theft through lost information should contact the IRS Identity Protection Specialized Unit at 800-908-4490.
Pervasive telephone scams
In a recent jump in phone scams across the country, callers pretend to be from the IRS to steal money or victims' identities. Some callers say the victims owe money or are entitled to a huge refund while other callers threaten arrest or driver's license revocation.
Phone scammers typically use "common" names to identify themselves and may know the last four digits of the victim's Social Security Number, according to the IRS.
If you get a phone call from someone claiming to be from the IRS, and you owe taxes, call 800-829-1040. If you know you don't owe taxes, report the call to the Treasury Inspector General at 800-366-4484.
Phishing typically involves unsolicited email or fake websites to prompt victims to divulge personal or financial information. If you receive such an email, report it to email@example.com.
The IRS does not contact taxpayers by email to request personal or financial information. The agency has information online to help protect the public from email scams.
False promises of "free money"
Scam artists routinely pose as tax preparers during filing season, promising large refunds that people never dreamed they were due in the first place. They advertise through flyers, phony store fronts or even churches.
Some scam victims have lost federal benefits, such as Social Security payments, as a result of unscrupulous preparers reporting false income amounts to the IRS.
Return preparer fraud
About 60 percent of taxpayers use tax professional to prepare their returns. The IRS cautions people to use only preparers who sign returns they prepare and enter their IRS Preparer Tax Identification Numbers.
For tips on choosing a tax preparer, view IRS Fact Sheet 2014-5.
Hiding income offshore
U.S. taxpayers who maintain financial accounts abroad and do not comply with reporting requirements are breaking the law. The IRS works closely with the Department of Justice to prosecute tax evasion cases.
Since 2009, thousands of people have voluntarily disclosed foreign accounts to resolve their tax obligations, according to the IRS. With new foreign account reporting requirements to be phased in over the next few years, it's increasingly harder to hide income offshore, the agency said.
Impersonating charities
After major disasters, scam artists use a variety of bogus methods to impersonate charities to get money or private information from taxpayers.
If you are a disaster victim with questions about tax relief, call the IRS at 866-562-5227.
False income, expenses or exemptions
Claiming income you did not earn or expenses you did not pay to get larger refundable credits can have serious repercussions. For example, fraud involving the fuel tax credit can reseult in a penalty of $5,000.
Frivolous arguments
Promoters of frivolous schemes encourage taxpayers to make unreasonable and outlandish claims to avoid paying taxes they owe. These promoters risk a variety of penalties, the IRS said.
Falsely claiming zero wages
Filing a phony return to lower the amount of taxes owed typically involves a substitute Form W-2 or a "corrected" Form 1099. Filing this type of return may result in a $5,000 penalty.
Abusive tax structures
These sophisticated schemes take advantage of financial secrecy laws of other countries.
Misuse of trusts
Unscrupulous promoters continue to urge taxpayers to transfer large amounts of assets into trusts. These assets can include not only cash and investments but successful businesses.


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Dr. Roger Lous Martínez-Dávila is an Associate Professor of History at University of Colorado-Colorado Springs (USA) and a European Commission Marie Curie Fellow at the Universidad de Carlos III de Madrid (Spain). He is a specialist in Sephardic Jews and conversos, culture, and family history for the 12th through 16th centuries; medieval and early modern Spanish history; religious minorities and religious converts; and the 16th century trans-Atlantic migration of Spaniards to the Americas. Relying on his specialized training in Spanish paleography and Spanish and Portuguese language expertise, Dr. Martínez has conducted research in approximately fifty (50) local, ecclesiastical, provincial, and national archives in Spain, Vatican City, Mexico, Bolivia, and the United States. His forthcoming text, Creating Conversos: The Carvajal-Santa Maria Family in Early Modern Spain, will be published by the University of Notre Dame Press in 2018. Roger served as Guest Curator for the Fractured Faiths: Spanish Judaism, the Inquisition, and New World Identities exhibition at the New Mexico History Museum (Santa Fe, NM), an exhibit that investigated the Sephardic Jewish community and culture before and after the Edict of Expulsion of 1492. He has published in the peer-reviewed Routledge Research Companion to Digital Medieval Literature, Bulletin of the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, and the Journal of Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian Crypto-Jews. Dr. Martínez is the fortunate recipient of several research fellowships and awards, including ones provided by the Mellon Foundation, the Council for European Studies, the Spanish Ministry of Culture's Program for Cultural Cooperation, the International Institute for Jewish Genealogy (IIJG) and Paul Jacobi Center at the National Library of Israel, and the University of California-Los Angeles Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies and Center for Jewish Studies.
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Michael O'Neill has challenged his Northern Ireland players to "take a big scalp" after they gave themselves the perfect platform in Euro 2020 qualifying.
Paddy McNair's 85th-minute winner saw O'Neill's side beat Belarus 1-0 in Borisov on Tuesday to move on to 12 points from their first four games, the first time they have ever had such a strong start to a campaign.
For months Northern Ireland's players and staff have spoken about the target of getting 12 points from these games and – with that mission accomplished – they will no doubt enjoy their summers.
But O'Neill is already looking forward to September, when Northern Ireland host Germany at Windsor Park.
"We're underdogs playing two of the strongest countries in Europe, but we have given ourselves a chance," he said.
"What we have to do next, the next indication for this team, is to take a big scalp and we have the chance to do that, particularly in Belfast."
Things are certainly looking good for Northern Ireland's chances of reaching a second European Championship.
Holland may have two games in hand, but the yawning nine-point gap to Northern Ireland will put plenty of pressure on them ahead of their next qualifier, which is away to Germany days before Joachim Low's men come to Belfast.
"The important thing when the draw came out was to try and turn the group into a group of three and we have done that," O'Neill said.
"It creates pressure for the bigger nations. We're a tiny nation with a very limited pool of players, people don't realise that.
"We've accomplished a lot in this group, it's a relatively new team and our dream is to make it to Euro 2020.
"It was a fabulous experience to go to Euro 2016 and get to the last 16 and the players want to experience that again. They've given themselves a real chance of being able to do that."
McNair's 85th-minute goal means that Northern Ireland have won their last three qualifiers with goals that came inside the last 10 minutes.
It may not be easy on the stress levels for O'Neill or the watching fans, but the manager is not complaining.
"At the moment, the late moments in games are going our way and long may that continue," he said.
"It's testament to the players, we have that belief.
"Something's changed in these players in the last four or five years.
"That may have been a game, going back, that we would have lost. We would have competed well for 70 minutes and then lost to a mistake.
"Instead we've gone the opposite way. These are games we believe we can win home or away and it's a nice characteristic to have in the squad."


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http://mmajunkie.com While he missed weight at Thursday's official ceremony, registering 210.5 pounds for a light-heavyweight fight, grappling ace Robert Drysdale (5-0) didn't miss his chance at earning his fifth-straight first-round submission win.
Drysdale wasted little time taking Chris "The Celtic Tiger" Reed (5-2) to the floor and earning a first-round submission via armbar.
The bout served as the featured contest of Friday's Legacy Fighting Championship 15 event, which took place at Houston's Arena Theater and aired on AXS TV.
Drysdale shot in on an early single-leg attempt and tried to advance into a north-south choke. Reed grabbed the shorts to prevent a submission attempt, but Drysdale simply transitioned to mount before leaping out to an armbar that earned the first-round tap. Drysdale didn't break a sweat as he earned the win in just 75 seconds.
Drysdale now has five first-round tapouts to his name, and his longest fight has lasted just two minutes and six seconds. Meanwhile, Reed falls to 1-2 in his past three appearances but deserves some credit for taking the fight despite his opponent's weight-cutting issue.
In the evening's lightweight co-feature, Nick "The Ghost" Gonzalez (18-10) survived a steady barrage of first-round low kicks from opponent Ray Blodget (7-2) and bounced back to claim the final two rounds and a unanimous-decision win.
Southpaw Blodget utilized snapping low kicks in the early going to wobble his foe and slow down Gonzalez's forward movement. It was an effective strategy, and his work was punctuated by a late takedown and transition to the back, though he couldn't capitalize before the round ended.
Blodget mixed levels well in the second, as he sought high kicks, a few takedown looks and several shots to the body. Gonzalez was unfazed and moved forward throughout the round. He appeared to eat an illegal knee to the face while he had his own knee on the floor, but he simply walked through the blow and started to pepper his opponent with accurate punches to the head and body. Blodget seemed to tire as the round wore on, and Gonzalez's pressure earned him the round.
Blodget tries to seize control of the momentum in the final frame as he resumed his forward movement and looked to push the pace. Still, his fatigue was evident in a few half-hearted takedown attempts and lack of zips on his punches. Gonzalez scored a key knockdown in the final minutes that likely sealed him the result, and while Blodget did wind up in top position for a few moments in a scramble, Blodget pulled free and finished the fight on his feet. In the end, Gonzalez's final 10 minutes was enough for him to take the round.
Gonzalez improves to 2-1 in his past three fights. Blodget sees a two-fight win streak snapped.
Huerta, Bush strike their way to first-round stoppage wins
While it didn't last long, Angel "The Chosen One" Huerta (6-1) and Saul Elizondo (5-3) provided fireworks for 67 seconds before a devastating left hook ended the fight.
Both fighters looked willing to trade strikes early, but after moments of success from both competitors, a crushing left hook dropped Elizondo, and a smashing right-hand hammerfist forced the stoppage. Elizondo looked as if he was prepared to take another punch or two, but as he applied a triangle choke to the official, it appeared the referee's call was correct.
With the impressive result, Huerta rebounds from the lone loss of his career. Meanwhile, Elizondo sees a two-fight win streak come to a screeching halt.
In a middleweight matchup, William "Bubba" Bush (5-2) earned a first-round TKO stoppage over Jon "The Jaguar" Kirk (16-11) by taking him to the floor and simply big-brothering him until the referee called an end to the fight.
Bush avoided an early choke attempt Kirk and earned top position, where he looked to move to mount but settled for side control. It wound up working out well, as he transitioned into a crucifix position and rained down punches and elbows. Most of the short strikes weren't of the concussive variety, but he stayed heavy on his opponent and prevented Kirk from any sort of reversal attempt, and the bout was waved off at the 2:08 mark of the first.
Bush improves to 3-1 in his past four fights. Kirk has now dropped four consecutive fights.
Fast finishes early as de Almeida, Ontiveros, Schnell pick up quick wins
In an early "Knockout of the Night" candidate, undefeated bantamweight Thomas de Almeida (7-0) kept his record unblemished with an incredible overhand-elbow knockout of opponent Cody Williams (4-4).
Williams looked confident in the early going as he stood firm in the pocket and fired heavy strikes with his opponent. But as the round wore on, de Almeida visibly settled into the pace of fight and looked ready to explode. When an opening appeared, de Almedia did, launching a crushing overhand elbow that landed on the button and sent his opponent crashing to the canvas. A follow-up punch also landed on the jaw, but Williams was already done.
In additional early action, Charles Ontiveros (3-0) remained undefeated after earning a submission win over Patrick Hutton (3-6).
The stocky Hutton came out firing heavy leather, but Ontiveros kept his distance and moved freely as he switched stances and attacked from multiple angles. Hutton missed with powerful lunging punches as he avoided a few powerful kicks that flew just over his head. Shortly after the fight moved into the clinch and on to the floor, and it looked as if Hutton would drop bombs from top position. Instead, Ontiveros swiftly moved into an armbar position and flipped his opponent over for the tap.
In the evening's first main-card contest, Matt "Danger" Schnell (2-0) earned an impressive submission win over fellow flyweight Marcus Dupar (2-2).
Schnell dropped his opponent with an early right-hand counter and then followed his opponent to the floor for a guillotine-choke attempt. Dupar popped his head free with relative ease but left his arm behind and was forced to tapout to a slick armbar just 66 seconds after the bout began.
- Robert Drysdale def. Chris Reed via submission (armbar) – Round 1, 1:15
- Nick Gonzalez def. Ray Blodget via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
- Angel Huerta def. Sail Elizondo via knockout (punches) – Round 1, 1:07
- William Bush def. Jon Kirk via TKO (strikes) – Round 1, 2:08
- Thomas de Almeida def. Cody Williams via knockout (elbow) – Round 1, 2:28
- Charles Ontiveros def. Patrick Hutton via submission (armbar) – Round 1, 3:11
- Matt Schnell def. Marcus Duper via submission (armbar) – Round 1, 1:06
For more on Legacy Fighting Championships 15, check out the MMA Events section of the site.
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Father's Day Holds Extra Special Meaning for Former Jefferson City Athlete
JEFFERSON CITY - Some take the long road to reach their dreams. For Sylvester Williams, it was a road full of obstacles.
Today marks his first Father's Day as an NFL rookie.
"The biggest thing for me growing up was...I wanted to be something great. I didn't know what it was, but I wanted to be something great," said Williams Jr.
Williams grew up with three older sisters and a younger brother under the supervision of his father, Sylvester Williams Sr. and his aunt, Clarinda Hutson. Williams' mother Melanie Carter found herself in and out of drug rehab for most of his childhood.
"Back then, we was both on drugs...So she decided that she wanted to go a different way. And I took the kids," said Williams Sr.
Williams moved from St. Louis to Jefferson City just in time to start high school. Sylvester Sr. checked into rehab, and things were looking up, at least until his sophomore year at Jefferson City High School. Williams Jr. was expelled for missing too many classes.
"When they kicked me out of school my sophomore year, the principal told me to my face 'I think it's best for you to go and get your GED,'" said the younger Williams.
"I said, 'What you going to do?' he said, 'Daddy I'm going to finish school.' I said, 'So what you going to do?' I've been telling you about the football. Just try!" said Williams Sr.
Williams Jr. made a change. He got back into the classroom, and decided to listen to his father by giving football a try. Taking the football field in high school was one of the first steps Sylvester Williams Jr. took into turning his life around. He started off playing in front of just a few thousand people at Adkins Stadium. Little did he know, he would have the chance to play in front of more than 70,000 fans.
Williams played only one year of varsity football for the Jefferson City Jays in the fall of 2007, and his high school career was anything but spectacular. Chad Masters was the defensive line coach for Jefferson City that year.
"He was just real raw," said Masters. "I mean everything was just raw. He never played before. He comes out and he's bigger than most of the people who are on the field at the time. And he had that, like I said, that base athleticism to him that was just there. But he didn't know what to do with it at that point."
Williams earned a starting spot for only one game in high school, on September 21st, 2007, when Jefferson City went up against the Rockhurst Hawklets. The Jays' defense gave up 55 points that night.
Williams graduated high school and followed in his father's footsteps. He got a job at Modine Manufacturing working nights, making car radiator parts for $400 a week.
"I had nothing but eight hours to think. Eight hours to think about where my life was going. As I think about it, I didn't see my life going anywhere. So I knew I had to get up out of there some way," said the younger Williams.
Williams then decided to give football another try. He walked onto the team at Coffeyville Community College in Kansas. In 2010, he had 52 tackles, two sacks and five blocked kicks. Williams then earned a scholarship to the University of North Carolina. Two years later, he was named First-Team All ACC. And then, in the 2013 NFL Draft, the Denver Broncos selected Williams in the first round with the 28th overall pick in the draft. He accomplished all this under the direction of a father who loves the game, but not as much as he loves his children.
"Most fathers usually run out on their kids or choose not to raise their kids. But my father actually fought to raise us. He fought to keep us in his life. He did everything he could to help raise us and make us have a good life," said Williams Jr.
When asked how he felt when his son's name was called on draft night, Williams Sr. replied, "That's my name. He just took that road. What I couldn't get, he got it for me."
William's took the long road to reach his dream. And now the finish line is in sight.


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By Alissa Figueroa
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One day in 2005 Hamdi Ulukaya, owner of a small feta cheese company in upstate New York, took a tour that would change his life. As he walked through the 100-year-old yogurt factory, a handful of employees were busying themselves with the work of shutting the factory down.
"On the way back, I called my attorney and I said, 'I just saw a plant and I think I want to buy it,'" explains Ulukaya, a 40-year-old immigrant who grew up on a dairy farm in eastern Turkey. "He said, "You're really, really crazy. That's not going to happen.'"
But Ulukaya saw something in the defunct factory that no one else did: an opportunity to bring the yogurt of his youth to the masses. So using loans of less than $1 million, some backed by the Small Business Administration, he bought the plant.
Ulukaya spent the next two years developing the recipe for Chobani yogurt.
"That place became my home," Ulukaya told Rock Center's Harry Smith in an interview airing Thursday, Dec. 13 at 10pm/9CT on Rock Center with Brian Williams. "It was lonely days, difficult days, a lot of question marks, a lot of pressure to see if I would make it to the next day."
No longer does Ulukaya have to worry if his company will make its next payroll.
Since launching in 2007, Chobani has grown into a $1 billion business, according to Ulukaya, with no signs of slowing down. He also did something arguably more impressive: he changed what Americans eat.
Before Chobani came along, Greek yogurt sales in America were nearly nonexistent. Now, more than a third of the yogurt we eat is Greek, and Chobani is the biggest seller.
Ulukaya's personal wealth is now valued at $1.1 billion by the Bloomberg Billionaire's Index.
Impact on the local community
The good fortune, though, is not only his. Chobani's rise has been a lifeline for one of the most economically depressed parts of the country: rural upstate New York. This area was struggling long before the recession hit, with tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs disappearing in the last few decades.
"I expected the plant to sit there vacant [after Kraft left]. I had these visions of it becoming dilapidated and falling apart," says Maria Wilcox, one of the four remaining Kraft workers that Ulukaya hired from New Berlin, the tiny town where the plant is located.
Growing from those first few workers, Chobani now employs more than 1,300 people in upstate New York and has made $193 million in capital investments on the old factory.
"Other companies came and looked at the plant and the surrounding area and left. [Ulukaya] always had a vision for the plant here that included the community," says New Berlin Mayor Terry Potter. "He's brought a sense of rejuvenation to the community."
Along with good-paying jobs, Chobani built New Berlin its first little league field, free of charge.
Chobani also trucks 4 million pounds of milk daily to its New Berlin factory from the area's 5,300 dairy farms. New York produced some 530 million pounds of yogurt in 2011 -- more than twice 2008 levels – and a direct result of Greek yogurt production.
A new kind of CEO
Ulukaya has been able to accomplish all of this so quickly by bypassing many of the traditional models for business success, especially in the food industry. Instead of focus groups, consultants and big marketing campaigns, Ulukaya has focused on perfecting his product based on response from consumers. Ulukaya still has messages from customers (every single one) forwarded to his cell phone daily.
The company has been particularly good at harnessing the power of positive feedback online.
"The communication is so fast; you don't need huge money for the marketing or your voice to be heard," says Ulukaya. "It's a flat world."
In fact, Chobani has only launched two television ad campaigns, the most recent during the 2012 London Olympics, for which they were an official sponsor. Ulukaya had to pull the ads because the factory couldn't keep up with the increased demand.
Chobani runs on the idea that consumers' voices will shape the market; with the internet, word of mouth is a more valuable marketing tool than ads, says Ulukaya. This helps new guys on the scene make a big impact quickly. And, he adds, it's their responsibility to challenge the status quo.
"It's a shame what's in the supermarkets today," says Ulukaya. "It doesn't have to have all these preservatives. It doesn't have to have all these bad colors and stuff like that. . . It's the manufacturer's responsibility. They can make it better. They can make it nutritious, and they can make it accessible. That's what we did in Chobani."
So what's next for the company?
Chobani just opened its first retail store, a boutique yogurt bar in SoHo, this summer. Now customers can sit down to enjoy a "yogurt creation," with gourmet fresh toppings and, of course, Chobani.
Ulukaya is coy about what's on the horizon for Chobani as far as new products, but he's clear about one thing: this is only the beginning.
Editor's Note: Click here to watch Harry Smith's full report from NBC's Rock Center with Brian Williams.


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I was upset to hear that one of our neighbors, Main Street Ephemera, will be closing its storefront in the next month. Since he moved here from Smith several years ago, owner Dave has been a source of many great finds for us, particularly related to New York history. Postcards, stereograms, trade magazines, burlesque programs, old menus, canceled checks, Esso maps, Tin Pan Alley sheet music, B-movie lobby cards, and publicity shots of forgotten crooners were Dave's stock-in-trade. And manna for this collector.
Last week we stopped by the shop, which will remain open sporadically through March, and found more proof (seen here) why Dave's eye for the queer and arcane lived up to Main Street's motto "Where the Historical Meets the Hysterical." Make sure to visit before he abandons the place forever, though he will remain a visible presence at one of the many city flea markets in the spring and summer.
--Peter Miller, Freebird Books
The cover of a guidebook to New York, with illustrations and photographs of notable Manhattan and Brooklyn landmarks, offered as complements from Harris Bank in 1909.
An undated stereogram of a Brooklyn ferry boat.
A 1928 menu from the Cortile restaurant in midtown, which offered a $1.50 dinner with cream of mushroom soup, baked ham, mashed turnips, shredded cabbage salad, and snow pudding, pineapple and kumquat sauce among their options. A pint of claret was available for an additional 75 cents.
An advertisement and direct order form for a 1935 collection of tales about a young messenger boy on the streets of the Lower East Side. Originally written by Abraham Burstein in the New York Jewish Daily News, its protagonist Abie "is involved in many matrimonial difficulties, in synagogue politics, in business and racial dilemmas, and in all of them he solves difficult problems with the help of his own humor and cleverness and the always available telegraph office." Story titles included "The Various Uses of Feet" and "Father Kelly Uses Yiddish."
The program from an annual luncheon commemorating the great New York blizzard of 1888. The three-day snowstorm marked a critical point in New Yorkers' collective memory a century ago, an event that dumped over three feet of snow, stranded thousands of commuters, and led to the deaths of 200 people across the five boroughs. In the years following, nostalgic survivors met to swap stories and award guests for the best essay on the subject. This gathering featured Dr. Vilhjalmur Stefansson as guest speaker and stereopticon views from John T. Washbourn.
Fiorello LaGuardia at a "crime conference" (according to the back of the photo), hosted possibly by the Herald-Tribune newspaper. It is dated April 1936. It would be a gutsy year for LaGuardia in his efforts to crack down on organized crime, giving Special Prosecutor Thomas Dewey the go-ahead to bring down Lucky Luciano and his massive prostitution ring.
A direct order form from Bloch Publishing Company ("The Jewish Book Concern"), the same press behind The Ghetto Messenger. Founded in 1854, Bloch remains a family-run business, an outgrowth of the Reform Judaism movement centered in Cincinnati (they would move to New York in 1901). Ask the Rabbi was a one of a kind quiz book from 1927 that contained 2,000 questions (and answers) about Jewish ritual, holidays, customs, literature, history, values and beliefs.


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Today was the gf's birthday.
For a while I was thinking what would make the best present.. some jewelry, clothes, a kitchen appliance (joking), or let her choose something?
Then it hit me.. a vibrator!
No, not what you'd think. I got a massager. If I must let it be known, I am the worst at giving massages, and a bit non-plussed to get them done to me. She often complains about her back, so I thought it'd be appropriate.
To be sure I plugged in all the ones on display, and to my surprise one of simplest (a Panasonic) had just a hard and soft setting, but felt nicer and not too big. Unlike the others, this one has wheels to roll along your back.
From how much she's used it so far, I think I did pretty good choosing this present.
It has a funky black and green colour too. Cool huh?
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Today was the gf's birthday.
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Wow. It's just like science.
I wouldn't say I know all that much about porn. More than the average guy for sure but there is a whole other level of porn aficianado out there that dwarfs mine. It's the guys who have been following porn for 20+ years and have tens of thousands of posts on sites like Adultdvdtalk and planetsuzy.com and run blogs about porn who are the real experts who have helped educate me. It's kind of like what Newton said about standing on the shoulders of giants.
I've completely missed out on that kind of education — I've wasted all those years studying mere biology.
The weird cluelessness is compounded when you consider that Newton died a virgin, and proud of it.


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Local councillor Kevin Bonvia has emailed to say that plans are afoot in Lewisham to host two beacons in honour of the Queen's Diamond jubilee. One is likely to be on the heath. See the PDF file here, and google map above, based on the grid coordinates TQ39501 76629 in the doc. More info on Liz's homepage.
There's also an excellent article here, with a foreword by Jeremy Hunt, explaining exactly how best to light a fire. Which could come in handy if the government's austerity measures get any worse.
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The networking group drew in around $1,200 to be donated to Habitat For Humanity for the relief efforts, and began discussions in the community about how to address rebuilding from fellow women entrepreneurs.
Anjali Chugh, president of the NAPW Forest Hills/Rego Park Chapter, said there is always more to be done and assured that victims of the storm are not part of a forgotten story.
"I know it's just a drop in the ocean, but it's better than not doing anything," Chugh said. "Some people might have forgotten about Sandy, but it's still there and people are still being affected."
Around 40 women business owners and entrepreneurs came out for the dinner and networking event at Biu Bella Caffe at 107-02 Queens Blvd. last week to network and discuss what else can be done.
"We can't help everybody personally, so we just wanted to make a consolidated effort and give the money to an organization that can give it to the right place," she said. "The objective of many people here is networking, so we are doing the same thing here but we also raised money out of this as well."
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Yeah so Taylor Momsen's interview with Spin – have you read it?
She's so hardcore with her eyeliner and her band and the holes in her stockings, you know, like real rock'n'roll and other bitches like Rihanna are total pretenders.
"People think pop is rock, and the lines are getting blurred. Now Rihanna's wearing f-ckin' leather jackets, and it's really annoying."
Really? Are we doing this? Is it an Annoying-Off? Because in an Annoying-Off Jenny Humphrey loses every time. And, um, PS, Taylor Momsen stars on Gossip Girl AND a campaign for Material Girl, the clothing line for kids launched by a POP QUEEN called Madonna.
This is how you know, see? She's 17, fronts like she's 30, wants desperately to be taken as an adult, and talks like a teenager so in other words, full of dumbassness. It's their defining feature, along with overestimating their own intelligence and maturity.
In Taylor Momsen's case, she's also a celebrity, which means she's not only young and stupid, she's also never challenged, resulting in quotes like this:
"(My style is) high-class hooker. I dress for myself. Clearly, it's provocative, but it makes me feel good. And if the only reason it makes someone uncomfortable is because I'm 17, then that person's a scumbag because it shouldn't matter."
It's a common affliction, as I've noted before, among the Stupid Generation – using words in the wrong context, a series of statements that sound great, but make no sense, and that pretty much sums up the lot of them.
After all, the fact that you're underage, and therefore illegal, is what makes it "provocative", so of course it matters, you moron – even if he's a scumbag. And you have a journalist (probably an intern, actually) taking down the quote who doesn't bother with a follow up question, allowing the statement to stand as is and that's why there's a 12 year old walking around right now calling this a prophecy.
"I'm not really sure how to answer properly yet (about the inspiration behind my suggestive lyrics). I've had a lot of bad experiences, and whether that's from sex or drugs or something else, they are adult experiences that would f-ck anyone up."
This is Momsen performing at V Festival in England this weekend and at BBC Radio this morning, continuing to tour with Pretty Reckless which, presumably, is how she's encountering all these "adult experiences". What's the law on this re: guardianship? Then again, Momsen's mother probably subscribes to the Dina Lohan Method – let them go, give them their freedom, give them the Chateau Marmont and a tour bus and trust that they'll come back. Because, as Taylor would tell you, an "artist" is a free soul:
"I was at a point where I was getting up and going to work, but I was drained. Gossip Girl gave me a platform to make this happen faster, and I'm grateful, but if I'm not doing something that makes me happy, then I'm dying. Music keeps me young."
Oh the f-cking drama.
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This week we learned that Glenn Greenwald was not exaggerating when he said that there was more in Edward Snowden's leaked info than we had seen thus far. It turns out the NSA (and the GCHQ, its UK equivalent) has been using many methods to attack ubiquitous encryption on the internet:
Those methods include covert measures to ensure NSA control over setting of international encryption standards, the use of supercomputers to break encryption with "brute force", and – the most closely guarded secret of all – collaboration with technology companies and internet service providers themselves.
Through these covert partnerships, the agencies have inserted secret vulnerabilities – known as backdoors or trapdoors – into commercial encryption software.
This is different from saying that the NSA had cracked everyone's encryption, but it appears that they've been undermining everyone's privacy and security with the complicity of major technology companies.
This is a big fucking deal.
Part of the reason is because putting in secret vulnerabilities means that dedicated non-governmental agents can find those vulnerabilities and exploit them.
There are ways to protect your security online, but seriously, if the NSA really wanted something about you (and I'm assuming here that most of this blog's readers are Canadians, thus foreigners to the NSA and fair game for spying on their information conveniently passing through US data-centres) they can get it. From Bruce Schneier:
This kind of thing is done by its TAO – Tailored Access Operations – group. TAO has a menu of exploits it can serve up against your computer – whether you're running Windows, Mac OS, Linux, iOS, or something else – and a variety of tricks to get them on to your computer. Your anti-virus software won't detect them, and you'd have trouble finding them even if you knew where to look. These are hacker tools designed by hackers with an essentially unlimited budget. What I took away from reading the Snowden documents was that if the NSA wants in to your computer, it's in. Period.
In Wired Kim Zetter lays out a bit of the history of this program, called Bullrun:
The ten-year Bullrun program began after the U.S. government failed in its pla to place a backdoor, the so-called Clipper chip, into encryption that would have allowed it to eavesdrop on communications at will. Without the Clipper chip, the government launched a systematic plan using trickery and other methods to circumvent encryption and achieved an unspecified breakthrough in 2010. In the wake of this, according to one document, "vast amounts of encrypted Internet data which have up till now been discarded are now exploitable."
Some of the methods involved the deployment of custom-built, supercomputers to break codes in addition to collaborating with technology companies at home and abroad to include backdoors in their products. The Snowden documents don't identify the companies that participated.
Basically, the NSA asks companies to subtly change their products in undetectable ways: making the random number generator less random, leaking the key somehow, adding a common exponent to a public-key exchange protocol, and so on. If the back door is discovered, it's explained away as a mistake.
We don't have a secure internet. Major corporations have joined up with security agencies to make it that way.
One thing we can and probably should be doing as information professionals is calling for our libraries and other institutions to be using more Free and Open Source Software. These independent, community-based technologies allow us to see inside the code and make it much more difficult for nefarious shadowy agents (governmental or non-) to add in holes specifically to spy on us and our members we're providing services to.
I work in a public library in a community that isn't on the cutting edge of technology. For many of our members I'm the public tech support person, and people ask me about using things like online banking and whether it's safe to do. It's important for anyone in this kind of position to know about the tradeoffs being made by technology titans, and how we're selling our members to companies that, even though the language of the internet is cute ("like" "friend" even "google"), those companies don't have our members' best interests at heart.
Schneier suggests techniques like using Tor, and encrypting communications with public-domain encryption that's cross compatible (this makes it less likely to have been NSA compromised). These won't keep everything you do secret from a determined, well-funded attacker, but it does make you more expensive to target.
Most members of my library probably don't need to be paranoid about encryption. They're looking up recipes and sending messages to their kids and reading romance novels or whatever. But our individual uses of the internet shouldn't really matter. As Byron Holland says in his post NSA Internet surveillance where's the outrage?:
It's not that governments should not have the power to monitor citizens under certain circumstances and with the appropriate oversight – it's an unfortunate necessity to maintain law and order. But we're not talking about surveillance with appropriate oversight. We're talking about an opaque and deliberate system to gather and monitor the activities and communications of potentially everyone who is online.
Why should a government feel it is above judicial oversight to monitor its citizens' activities, just because they're online?
Because apparently, we're fine with it. At the very least, we're complacent with it.
As information professionals we need to be aware of, and ensure our communities have the chance to be learn about the consequences of these surveillance and broken security technologies. That is our way to help fight complacency.


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DOVER – On Friday, February 15, Federal Savings Bank was named Underwriter of the Greater Dover Chamber of Commerce's premier spring event, the annual Sweepstakes & Auction.
Federal Savings Bank, a Dover-based community bank, has been a sponsor of "Sweeps" each of the 12 years the event has been in the Garrison City. This year's event will take place on Friday, May 3rd from 6:00pm to 10:00pm at the Garrison Wing Conference Center at Wentworth-Douglass Hospital.
"We are proud to have our headquarters located in such a vibrant city and even more proud to be a part of an event that truly represents community," said James J. O'Neill, Jr., Federal Savings Bank President & CEO. "As a community bank, we have remained committed to positively impacting the quality of life in the Seacoast region for over 123 years. We invest in our local communities in the form of small business loans, mortgage loans, and donations to local organizations and events, just like Sweeps," he added.
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"This year the event falls in May, right in the thick of horse racing season, so naturally Sweeps will feature a derby theme," commented Greater Dover Chamber of Commerce Community Events Manager, Michael Mengers. "Attendees should come dressed for the derby in elaborate hats and brightly colored blazers and jackets. Not to mention there will be plenty of horse racing themed games and activities."
Tickets to Sweeps are now on sale online at www.dovernh.org/sweepstakes-auction. Starting in March, tickets will be available for pickup at the Greater Dover Chamber of Commerce (550 Central Avenue). Each ticket is $100 and admits two to the event. Most importantly, every ticket holder is automatically eligible to win the $10,000 grand prize. There are only 249 tickets available, so make sure to purchase in advance. For more information, contact the Greater Dover Chamber of Commerce at (603) 742-2218.


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U.S. Airways Flight 1549, Twitter and an Amazing Photo
First things first: Everyone on U.S. Airways flight 1549, which landed in the Hudson River this afternoon a few minutes after it took off from LaGuardia, appears to be safe. Amazing.
Second thing: I learned this via Twitter this afternoon, via fellow Twitterer Dave Martin, who was "re-tweeting" information he'd picked up via the Chicago CBS TV station's Twitter account, which was passing along information it had received from CBS News.
Similarly, I am learning, via Twitter, that this amazing picture from Twitterer Janis Krums, who posted it to Twitpic, is the "first" photo of the airplane in the water. No idea if that's true–was someone monitoring all news outlets simultaneously before they reached this conclusion?–but it is an extraordinary photo.
In the old days, this image might have taken hours or even days to make it to cable news–think of those terrible videos that people shot with their home cameras during the first few minutes of 9/11. Today Krums was being interviewed on MSNBC 34 minutes after he posted the photo, says Dan Frommer at Silicon Alley Insider.
So: Did Twitter "break" news today? Did "citizen journalists" really "beat" the bad-old MSM? It'd be great if we could skip that debate. Because it will be as boring as the one we had last month after the terrorist attacks in Mumbai.
So let's get it over with quickly: I learned that there was a plane in the water via Twitter, via a whole lot of people who live and work on the west side of Manhattan. But the people who told me what had happened after that, and the ones who are telling me why the plane ended up in the water in the first place–those are people who have full-time jobs as journalists. Like the six people who contributed to this excellent report for the New York Times (NYT) Web site.
So I plan on relying on those folks for my news for as long as there's a business to support them. But I'll be using Twitter and the Web to augment that coverage–to tell me something very quickly, or to pass along news gleaned from news reports in the first place. See? Easy. Now I'm going to listen to WNYC, the local NPR station, which has been going wall-to-wall with this story all afternoon.


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